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🍬 A sugar 🔤 Sugar name ending 📝 Means 'full of'
ose

ose

9.0
A word ending used in chemistry to name sugars
  • other
  • Specialized
translation icon : -osa
  • Fructose, a well-known ose, is found in honey and many fruits.

Examples

  • Glucose is an important ose that provides energy to our body.

  • Comment ose-t-elle ?

    Lansky (2021)

  • So now you have a product where the group attached to the chiral carbon is not OH, but O with sulfur on it, right?

  • Sucrose is a common ose often referred to as table sugar.

Synonyms

-ose
vsose
  • Specialized
7.9

A word ending that shows the name of a sugar, like glucose and lactose

is broader in chemistry, naming sugars and related compounds beyond simple carbohydrates

Compounds

-ose
  • Specialized
7.9

A word ending that shows the name of a sugar, like glucose and lactose

-ose
8.9

A word ending that makes a describing word meaning full of something, for example verbose or grandiose

Surface Forms

ose main

Etymology

Ose as a suffix is the usual ending in chemical names for sugars, for example lactose and sucrose, so when you see -ose at the end of a word it usually means 'a sugar'.